Quality Hotel Yogyakarta

... some times they would turn up at just the right time when Kate and I were a bit peckish or thirsty and we would buy something.<br><br>The train arrived in Yogy a few hours late. There had been a tropical downpour on route as rainy season is hitting Malaysia and Indonesia now, although this was our first sight of it. We have been quite lucky weather-wise up to now. We took a taxi from the train station to the Metro Budget Hotel in South Yogy that Sunny had organised for us from our ...

I got up after just over three hours' sleep at 1am. I threw on my clothes and went to wait in the lobby to be picked up by the tour mini bus. At 1.45am, thirty minutes late, a guy arrived from the company and I got into the mini bus. There was a German couple in their mid-thirties in the van - Merkel and Eve - and I got talking to them a bit later on (I think we were all too tired and dazed to begin with). The trip took about an hour. When we had arrived at Cemoro Lawang ...

... different from Malaysia where you got a building with tables and chairs, here you just stepped in behind an awning and took a bench seat next to the food barrow where a guy cooks up a few set dishes. Not a grand setting but the food was fine and the smiles from the locals were a picture too!<br><br>Next morning (start of Ramadan for Muslims) we got our early morning call at 4am for the sunrise and the mosques were really ...

... m sure were horrified at the sight of her ghostly pale skin. They also happened to be at one of the big bars in town on the same night as Hanan and I met up with the brother-in-law of one of our former co-workers. The brother-in-law, Win, worked at the bar/guesthouse/tour organizer as a scuba guide and spoke to the DJ about helping us celebrate my 25th birthday (a few days early, but so what). As I think I mentioned before, one of the members of the English herd was turning 19 and ...

... after an hour and a half sat on the<br>concrete we were beginning to numb up a little. At the end we darted<br>outside to get that all important snap and just as we were lining up<br>the shot, they turned the lights out!! It would have been a nice shot<br>but not worth trying to find the fella with the key to the lights. We<br>moved on.<br>The<br>next day we got a tour bus to Borobudur for sunset. We'd heard that<br>this was ...

... folk are of the nicest and most helpful I've found. They say Thailand is the land of smiles, but this place comes in very close. The following day we book Bellongg of Bellongg Independent Tours (bellongg@yahoo.com) for his man and a van day run to Prambanam with a side trip to the silver street of Kota Gede. As per everything we wish we had met this guy a long time before! He was great. A little one man company he is trying to expand, he ...

... for sunrise although it was after the sun had risen so a bit annoying. However, it was a good time to go as it was the quietest and coolest part of the day and got up to get there for 6 o'clock. We were both amazed by the sheer scale and detail of such a creation. There are astounding figures like that it took 2 million stone blocks to make it. It has numerous tiers each full of buddha statues and what seemed like religious story ...

... going into exile and stringing the great bow to earn Sita's hand in marriage and return triumphantly as the King of Ayodhya, but with Rama and Sita happily as King and Queen of Ayodhya. Rama and Sita are reunited at the end of the ballet, whereas in the epic, Sita, frustrated with Rama's failing his duty as a husband, commits herself to the earth and falls through a crack in the ground. Similarly, Hanuman, the monkey ...

... formance sein sollte. Hatte bissl ungutes Gefühl, weil ich meine Sachen im Hotel gelassen habe und das Schloß in d** Tür eh** ein** Schloß Attrappe gleicht (solche Ding** haben wir bei uns vielleicht am Schuppen) und neben d** Tür hint** dem Vorhang so ein großes Fenst** ist aus vielen kleinen Scheiben, die man so kippen kann und dann ist da offen. Nicht, daß da jemand reinkommen könnte od** so, ab** wirklich sich** ist das nicht. Naja, bin dann los und hab das Beste ...

... whole gamut. I stuck mostly to the white bread (sense a theme here?) - stomach still getting adjusted. We took a stroll down "Jeans Street" - unbelievable - massive statues of superheroes everywhere - pure cheese at its finest. We didn't buy any jeans (have yet to find the "big and tall girl" section in this country) but had numerous chuckles of the ill translated English on T-shirts - absolutely hilarious!! (and very un PC :-)) We quickly figured out the ...